Modern Front-End Development for Rails

Appendix 1Framework Swap

You may look at the examples in the book and wonder if I deliberately or accidentally tuned the examples to show off Hotwire or React in a better light. Both examples have features that are there because they are particularly well-suited to the tool being shown. The schedule page has the inline edits, for example, while the React page has the way that the entire page redraws available seats when the pull-down menu is changed.

I thought it’d be interesting to close out the book by showing what the React page looks like in Hotwire and vice versa. This lets you see each tool in a slightly different light and also exposes the fact that somehow the schedule page got significantly more complex than the concert ticket page. ...